Above represents West Texas railroading to a “t” in the 1970s–one boxcar here, a covered hopper or two there, a gondola here, etc. It featured a lot of one or two car shipments. We will see more of that as we venture further south in the next post.

South of Pecos sits a quarry which has been at various times a very important source of traffic for the railroad. Below are images our photographer captured around the quarry in the late 1970s. It remains today today but has changed sides of the highway since these photos.